18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
... Island, China’s southernmost launch site. The rocket was expected to place a classified satellite named XJY 6 or ‘new technology verification satellite-6” into an elliptical, geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) but was unable to deliver the secret...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
...,” says Tim. “With it, we are building on our European heritage in robotic exploration, and at the same time devising new technologies.” The rover will relay data to Earth through the Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft searching for tiny...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... spaceships to the harsh radioactive environment of deep space. One of the ways that NASA is testing a number of the new technologies and capabilities that will directly enable future missions to Mars is through the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... this trend and are developing innovative business models to capitalise on it. This new technology and market trend is called “NewSpace”; it describes the new generation of space development, notably commercial, which are disrupting the dynamic...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... parameters of the comet. For Russia, launching Western spacecraft does not help develop new technology The Vega project therefore took another fundamentally new step in USSR’s space research: it became open and available to the wider scientific...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
.... The term “Zero to One” is shorthand for new technology developments that have broad economic prospects and impact. Serious ...: “In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.” This is a strong echo of the...
